Cardinals to take care of $150K buyout in Kliff Kingsbury's USC contract

The Arizona Cardinals have officially hired Kliff Kingsbury to be their new head coach. His contract is for four years and the team has an option for a fifth, which is nothing out of the ordinary. However, there was something that had to be taken care of. Kingsbury had a buyout in his contract with USC, where he signed last month to be the Trojans’ offensive coordinator.

After some buzz was made about the university blocking an interview and perhaps there needing to be a resignation for him to even interview.

At some point, USC acquiesced and allowed the interview, but because he is leaving USC, Kingsbury does need to pay the buyout.

According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the Cardinals are expected to take care of that.

The buyout is $150,000 that the Cardinals will pay USC for Kingsbury to get out of his contract.

As per the terms of his contract negotiated by @ErikBurkhardt at #USC, Kliff Kingsbury owes the school a $150K buyout to resign and take the #AZCardinals head coaching job. The team is expected to handle that.